Added to Booklisti.com: My books and my recommended memoirs of the Vietnam War. Including POV by infantry grunts, officers, medics and nurses, pilots – both fixed wing and helicopter, and Navy Brown Water River Rats. The collection offers readers a well-rounded view of the war from those who fought in it.
https://booklisti.com/booklist/books-about-vietnam-war-john-podlaski/lxpqwwa
CherriesWriter - Vietnam War website 
Why was “A Destination of Memories” written by Ramati not included?
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Choices taken from my personal library.
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I’m glad to get some recommendations for new books because no two books I have read on the war have been the same. I’ve read “Chickenhawk” and “Matterhorn”. Despite having read over a hundred books on the Vietnam war, I had to put “Matterhorn” down when a Marine got dragged off by a tiger while on patrol at night. Freaked me out. I did finish reading the book and consider it one of the most outstanding books on the war. “Chickenhawk” was one of the great books I read on the helicopter pilots and everything they faced. The enemy was the enemy, the weather, the effects of a tropical environment on a machine, mechanical mistakes, spies among them on the base. . “A Rumor of War” by Philip Caputo, written in 1976, is incredible, a real tribute to those who served. “Hue:1968, great book but more like a textbook than a soldier’s story. “The Boys of ’67”-took me a month to read because I cried so much. Great book. “Dak To” learned so much about the 173rd Airborne and the horror of that hill outside Dak To. “Home Before Morning” by Linda Van Devanter, a nurse in Vietnam, was the first book I read in the war and it got me hooked. “Five Years to Freedom” by (then) Lt James Nick “Nikki” Rowe is so well written that it’s used in literature classes across the country. “An American Hero” by the great Billy Waugh is an amazing story about MSG Isaac Camacho who escaped from a POW camp in the Central Highlandsp. “Tap Code”-POW story. “Lieutenant Dangerous”-informative and entertaining. “Everything We Had”, a collection of stories, recommended to me on Pinterest is a great book with short stories of which many were converted into books. “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” almost convinced me that I wasn’t crazy (😂) but the book is well researched and includes a lot of factual historical events. “The Morenci Marines” 😭😭😭 How could such a small town lose so many? My books are all packed because of an renovation but there are so many good books. My thanks to all Vietnam veterans who have suggested books to me. I am truly grateful to you for your service and heroism, and I will look into some of the books listed here.
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Have read most of the books listed but just found a really good book just recently. It is sort of a historical fiction. The title is “A Quiet Cadence”. The author is Mark Treanor, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate who was a Marine rifle platoon commander.
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You omitted two of the best books about the war in Vietnam which tell the story of the battle for the Special Forces camp at Lang Vei, west of Khe Sahn, on the Laotian border in February 1968:
–Night of the Silver Stars by William R. Phillips, and
–Route 9 Problem: The Battle for Lang Vei by David B. Stockwell
Both authors detail the heroic stand of the Special Forces and their troops in the battle in which the NVA used PT-76 tanks for the first time in Vietnam. And both describe how the colonel in command of the Marines at Khe Sahn refused to honor the reinforcement mission that was the responsibility of the Marines in the event of attack on Lang Vei, leaving the two dozen U.S. Special Forces soldiers and their indigenous fighters to fight the overwhelming NVA force.
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I think you have some great books listed, but you left off Flying Black Ponies.
This is a story about VAL-4 providing close air support in IV Corps.
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I stumbled across a couple there that I need to get and read. One that I don’t know if you’ve heard of is called “Policing Saigon by Loren Christensen. As a civilian cop and an MP, I thought I’d worked some mean streets. Compared to Saigon, I was working in Disneyland.
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You omitted two of the best books about the war in Vietnam which tell the story of the battle for the Special Forces camp at Lang Vei, west of Khe Sahn, on the Laotian border in February 1968:
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Great list, John. The first three books I read as a young kid with a fascination with military history; specifically Nazi Germany and Vietnam, were “A Rumor of War” by Phil Caputo, “The 13th Valley and another called “Devil’s Guard” which was about a group of ex-Nazi’s fighting in the French Foreign Legion. One of my siblings recently recommended “Matterhorn” as well. The two not included in your list are also fascinating. I read three of yours’ as well and many other’s worthy of recommendation. I’d recommend “Cherries” to anyone as a good starting point.
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thanks for the recommended book list. I have read a great many WWII books but only a few about Vietnam
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